Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 7: The Army

The Well
Water / Wind
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

側弁醉客,重舌作凶。披髮夜行,迷亂相誤,亡失居止。

Cap tilted, the drunken guest; with doubled tongue invites calamity. Hair unbound, walking in the night; bewildered and astray, losing his way and his dwelling.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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